President Obama has (again!) proposed tax increases for those making $250,000 or more a year.

Some of his most high profile oposition to this proposal are Democrats running in competitive races. For example, reports Politico, Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is already staying home from the national convention in September, says that she disagrees with Obama. She’s “open” to raising taxes on those making $1 million or more, McCaskill counters, but only if it is “part of a comprehensive deal to rein in the deficit.”

Democrats in California, Massachusetts, Utah, North Carolina and Georgia, all of whom have won reelection by large margins and barely had to fight at all to get back to Washington, are now facing many more Republicans in their districts because the borders have been redrawn. What will these new potential constituents say to the prospect of higher taxes? Probably not “Yes we can.”